Nature and Wildlife

Khara or Varzaneh Desert is located 100 km east of Isfahan in central Iran near the city of Varzaneh.

The trade of scorpion venom has turned into one of the most lucrative emerging businesses in Iran, tempting many opportunists to get engaged in hunting or farming scorpions.

Dorfak Peak in northern Iran, with an altitude of 2,700 metres, is the roof of Gilan province and a silent volcano which is home to an amazing ice cave and a natural glacier.

The Perseid Meteor Shower, which peaked on Sunday night across the world, dazzled a huge number of Iranian skygazers who flocked to desert and mountainous areas to watch the beautiful astronomical event.

Laton waterfall, located in Gilan province in north of the country, is the tallest waterfall of Iran measuring 105 metres in height.

A well-known recreational place in Hormozgan province in southern Iran is the Sabz-Pushan spring in Hajjiabad, which lies next to the village of Barghani.

Residents in southern Iran believe that the Valley of Stars on Qeshm Island has been named after the falling of a star centuries ago.

Anzali Lagoon, located in Gilan province in northern Iran, is one of the most interesting and largest natural habitats in the country.

Kani Grawan is a wonderful spring located in mountainous areas near Sardasht in Iran’s West Azarbaijan Province. Thanks to the salt and minerals existing in its water, it has a colourful and beautiful bedding that is suitable for treatment of pains and relaxation.

Iran’s Mount Damavand, the highest peak in Iran and the highest volcano in Asia, is a perfect place to watch the lunar eclipse, the most recent case of which happened on Friday night.

Iranian sky-watchers on Friday night enjoyed watching the century’s longest lunar eclipse, in which the moon was partly or fully in Earth’s shadow.

A rare species of freshwater crab has been found at the depths of a qanat – the ancient underground irrigation canals – in the city of Mahan in Kerman province.

Nayband, a beautiful village located on the road that connects the city of Tabas to Ravar in Iran’s South Khorasan province, is one of the unique examples of the so-called “staircase architecture” in which the roof of a house serves as the yard of the other house.

Quri Qala Cave, the longest of its kind in the Middle East with a history of 65 million years, is located in Kermanshah province, Western Iran.

The Damavand 2018 Symposium was recently held on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the first European ascent of Mount Damavand by Austrian climber, botanist and scholar Theodor Kotschy.

Hanam is a beautiful village located 25 kilometres south-east of Aleshtar in Lorestan province, western Iran.

There is a mysterious and gorgeous lake in Gilan province, northern Iran, whose colour changes during the day.

The largest aquarium tunnel of Iran has been opened in the port city of Anzali in Gilan province, northern Iran.

Juniper, or as local Iranians call it Ores, is a rare, coniferous and long-life tree which can live for up to 2,000 years. The ever-green tree grows up in mountainous areas with a height of over 2,500 metres above the sea level.

Gavkhouni is a wetland and saltmarsh located in the Iranian Plateau in central Iran. The majority of the wetland is located within the central province of Isfahan.

Sarash is a gorgeous village in Layl, a mountainous rural district at the centre of Lahijan County in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.

Unlike other parks, you cannot walk leisurely in Tehran’s Jurassic Park and take a rest for a while in a corner because everything here is different and exciting.

The agriculture-rich province of Khuzestan in south-western Iran is home to thousands of vineyards, from which thousands of tonnes of grape are harvested.

A female Asiatic cheetah and her four cubs were recently observed by the National park rangers in the protected area of Touran Wildlife Refuge in Iran’s Semnan province.

The Fandoqloo forest which lies next to vast mayweed fields is one of the most beautiful jungles and tourist attractions of Iran.